Veterans and the Death Penalty
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Spare a thought for the hundreds of veterans currently sitting on death row somewhere in America.
Gawker Readers Share Friends and Families’ Cute Veteran Photos
Yesterday, Gawker asked readers about any attractive veterans they knew—either public figures or their own families. This post is dedicated to submissions we received for family members and friends—boyfriends and girlfriends, fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, and anyone else in-between. (You can read our…
Celebrate Veterans Day With These 25 Very Hot Veterans
Yesterday, we asked our readers about any hot military veterans they knew or were aware of. You submitted the names—and photos!—of politicians, actors, friends, mothers, and fathers. This is an alphabetized list of hot veterans who are public figures; we’ll be running a separate post with reader submissions…
Reader Poll: Who Are the Hottest Veterans?
Tell us: Who are some extremely attractive military veterans that you know or are aware of? They can be famous or not famous. Younger or older. Male or female. Any branch. (No Nazis.)
Veterans, Homelessness, and the Long Road Back
Curtis Peterson, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, lost his civilian job in Georgia in the recession. So he got on a bus to New York. Once here, he promptly had a stroke. Today, he considers himself one of the lucky ones.
Let's Give Our Veterans the Only Thing They Want: A Mission
We know what's wrong with Veteran's Day. We know this country is crawling with jobless, homeless veterans of America's constant occupations and invasions. We know there aren't enough jobs for these people already burdened with so much, and no labor market demand for the "skill set" of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder…
Hundreds Attend Lonely Veteran's Funeral After Sad Obit Goes Viral
World War II vet Harold Jellicoe "Coe" Percival passed away peacefully in his sleep last month at the age of 99. According to his obituary, Harold had "no close family who can attend his funeral."
Watch an Amazing Timelapse Transformation of a Homeless Veteran
U.S. Army Veteran Jim Wolf has struggled with alcoholism, poverty, and homelessness for decades. But in September 2013, with the help of Degage Ministries in Grand Rapids, Mich., he agreed to go through a physical transformation.
This Veterans Day Weekend, It'll Be Tough To Beat One Newspaper's Front Page Tribute
What looks like a solid block of gray on the front page of the Hamilton Spectator resolves, when enlarged, into thousands and thousands of names of the war dead. Tomorrow is Remembrance Day in Commonwealth nations, and Veterans Day here in the U.S., and each commemorates the end of World War I and more generally all…
Germany Considers Instituting a Veterans Day, Perhaps Forgetting Many of Its Veterans Were Nazis
It reads like the kind of thought-provoking hypothetical your cool high school history teacher who sat not behind but ON TOP OF his desk and called everyone by their last names might have thrown out: Should Germany have its own Veterans Day?
Garfield Does Not Hate Veterans, Despite This Strip
Yesterday was Veteran's Day. So it was more than a little surprising that the joke for the day's Garfield strip was about an "annual day of remembrance" called "National Stupid Day." Does Garfield support the troops?!
The Great Red, White and Blue Yonder
[An American flag balloon floats away from the Veteran's Day parade in New York today. Image via Getty]
Comment of the Day: Muslim Terrorists Everywhere!
Today we looked at the latest Islam-related outrage: Google's desecration of its own Veteran's Day logo. Horror and outrage and stupidity and all of that. Makes you think! And it made one commenter think in a very nice way.
In Honor of Veterans Day, Fox News Interviews a Bald Eagle
Today, Fox & Friends had a very special guest — a famous Bald Eagle. It's name? Challenger. You can tell they thought a lot about this segment when Steve Doocy asks, "What is it saying with all the eagle talk?"
Does This Google Veterans Day Logo Look Muslim to You?
Boy howdy, Google has done it now! The company's special Veterans Day logo this year, you see, features a mysterious crescent shape. And you know who loves crescent shapes? The Muslims. Yeah, some people are actually upset about this.
